The Windows Phone Store badge is intended to provide a clear way to communicate the availability of your app on the Windows Phone Store. The badge can be used in your print or digital media, and is made available in a number of colors, sizes, and digital formats. The following shows some examples of the badge.

Windows App Studio Beta announcements

Now that you've used App Studio to jump start building your killer app, are you ready to launch it to the world on the Windows Phone Store? Before you go, make sure you've scrubbed out any leftover template items.

If your app uses template images or titles, still has placeholder text (like [insert name here]) or uses template metadata (such as the icon, long description or keywords), it won't meet app certification requirements. Use a template to learn how to do it, then change it into your app, and you'll be off to a good start on your way to the store.

Here's a handy checklist of examples to remember.

Use:

Your own titles

Your own iconography (app Logo, Pin to start tile)

Your own long description

Don’t use:

Template placeholder text ([insert name here])

Template app content

Have fun building your app in Windows Phone App Studio, and we'll see you in the Windows Phone Store!

When attempting to sideload Windows App Studio Beta apps using the Installable Package, some devices are returning a "Can't Install Company App" error. We are investigating and will resolve the error shortly. In the meantime, you can sideload Publish Packages using the Windows Phone SDK deployment tool.

First we would like to apologize for the inconvenience that the failing cert has caused for any of you.

Next, We would like to let you know that the problem is now resolved. We had loaded the wrong cert into the latest site revision, which is now fixed.Please go ahead and load the cert again, and it will now allow you to properly load it as well as your app package.

Again we are very sorry for the inconvenience.

The App Studio Team

Register and Manage Account announcements

Over the last month, we’ve brought the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store together into a single marketing and operations team to deliver a better experience for developers, end users and partners. Our focus remains to improve the way we help you reach new users and better monetize your apps, all while reducing friction and cost. Today we are making a set of changes that will simplify doing business with us.

I’m pleased to announce a unified registration experience for both Windows Store and Windows Phone developers, available at a lower cost.As a result of these changes, Windows Store developers are now also Windows Phone developers, and Windows Phone developers are also Windows Store developers. Welcome all!

Here’s what you can expect:

Registered Windows Store developers can now submit apps to the Windows Phone Store, using the same Microsoft account.

Registered Windows Phone developers can now submit apps to the Windows Store at no additional cost, using the same Microsoft account.

New developers can register and existing developers can renew their account using the same Microsoft account. Developers will enter registration information just once and pay a single lower price of $19 for an Individual and $99 for a Company account, providing access to publish apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users.

Developers already registered with both Windows Store and Windows Phone using the same Microsoft account will receive a code via email this month, valid for a free one-year renewal when their existing registration is up for renewal.

Students continue to be supported through the DreamSpark program.

You will continue to use the separate Windows Store and Windows Phone Dev Center Dashboards to submit and manage your apps. You can expect some differences in the steps you take to renew your account. The most notable for some of our Windows Phone developers is the addition of a credit card to validate all new account and renewals. You can read more about today’s changes on the Windows and Windows Phone Dev Centers.

Publish your app for both Windows Store and Windows Phone and earn prizes

With the holiday selling season approaching, this is an ideal time to tune-up and publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone to help increase your downloads and revenue. Last year holiday sales of paid apps grew 40% over baseline, and we expect an even more robust Holiday 2013 due to an even larger base of Windows and Windows Phone users with more ways to pay for apps.

As an added incentive, we’ve partnered with Nokia via the DVLUP community to give you an easy way to learn more and complete challenges as you develop for both the Windows Store and Windows Phone. Along the way, you’ll earn points that can then be redeemed for great prizes (for example, Nokia Lumia phones and more). DVLUP is currently open to developers in more than 20 countries.To participate, register for the DVLUP program and take advantage of the two new challenges available today:

Building Windows Store apps with HTML5/JavaScript announcements

A new version of the Windows ACK (and the SDK) is now available to download. This new version of the ACK will be enforced by the Store certification system in December, but you can start using it right now to improve the quality of your applications. Among other new tests and improvements, this new version will verify that the app icon shown in the Store is not the default one. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/desktop/hh852363

Designing websites has been a common practice for decades. With Windows 8 Consumer Preview, designers and developers can use the web technologies they are familiar with, including HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and JavaScript, to build Metro style apps for Windows. Here we explore how to expose the capabilities of a website to make it a great Metro style app for Windows 8 and show ways to provide additional value, personalization, and richer experiences using features of the Windows 8 platform.

Our aim is to help designers and developers reimagine their websites as Metro style apps.

I have a HTTP filter implemented using IHttpFilter which I throw some IOException's from with custom messages. However when the exceptions are caught by the method which awaits the SendRequestAsync of ...

The Windows Phone Store badge is intended to provide a clear way to communicate the availability of your app on the Windows Phone Store. The badge can be used in your print or digital media, and is made available in a number of colors, sizes, and digital formats. The following shows some examples of the badge.

Windows App Studio Beta announcements

Now that you've used App Studio to jump start building your killer app, are you ready to launch it to the world on the Windows Phone Store? Before you go, make sure you've scrubbed out any leftover template items.

If your app uses template images or titles, still has placeholder text (like [insert name here]) or uses template metadata (such as the icon, long description or keywords), it won't meet app certification requirements. Use a template to learn how to do it, then change it into your app, and you'll be off to a good start on your way to the store.

Here's a handy checklist of examples to remember.

Use:

Your own titles

Your own iconography (app Logo, Pin to start tile)

Your own long description

Don’t use:

Template placeholder text ([insert name here])

Template app content

Have fun building your app in Windows Phone App Studio, and we'll see you in the Windows Phone Store!

When attempting to sideload Windows App Studio Beta apps using the Installable Package, some devices are returning a "Can't Install Company App" error. We are investigating and will resolve the error shortly. In the meantime, you can sideload Publish Packages using the Windows Phone SDK deployment tool.

First we would like to apologize for the inconvenience that the failing cert has caused for any of you.

Next, We would like to let you know that the problem is now resolved. We had loaded the wrong cert into the latest site revision, which is now fixed.Please go ahead and load the cert again, and it will now allow you to properly load it as well as your app package.

Again we are very sorry for the inconvenience.

The App Studio Team

Register and Manage Account announcements

Over the last month, we’ve brought the Windows Store and the Windows Phone Store together into a single marketing and operations team to deliver a better experience for developers, end users and partners. Our focus remains to improve the way we help you reach new users and better monetize your apps, all while reducing friction and cost. Today we are making a set of changes that will simplify doing business with us.

I’m pleased to announce a unified registration experience for both Windows Store and Windows Phone developers, available at a lower cost.As a result of these changes, Windows Store developers are now also Windows Phone developers, and Windows Phone developers are also Windows Store developers. Welcome all!

Here’s what you can expect:

Registered Windows Store developers can now submit apps to the Windows Phone Store, using the same Microsoft account.

Registered Windows Phone developers can now submit apps to the Windows Store at no additional cost, using the same Microsoft account.

New developers can register and existing developers can renew their account using the same Microsoft account. Developers will enter registration information just once and pay a single lower price of $19 for an Individual and $99 for a Company account, providing access to publish apps for both Windows and Windows Phone users.

Developers already registered with both Windows Store and Windows Phone using the same Microsoft account will receive a code via email this month, valid for a free one-year renewal when their existing registration is up for renewal.

Students continue to be supported through the DreamSpark program.

You will continue to use the separate Windows Store and Windows Phone Dev Center Dashboards to submit and manage your apps. You can expect some differences in the steps you take to renew your account. The most notable for some of our Windows Phone developers is the addition of a credit card to validate all new account and renewals. You can read more about today’s changes on the Windows and Windows Phone Dev Centers.

Publish your app for both Windows Store and Windows Phone and earn prizes

With the holiday selling season approaching, this is an ideal time to tune-up and publish your apps for both Windows and Windows Phone to help increase your downloads and revenue. Last year holiday sales of paid apps grew 40% over baseline, and we expect an even more robust Holiday 2013 due to an even larger base of Windows and Windows Phone users with more ways to pay for apps.

As an added incentive, we’ve partnered with Nokia via the DVLUP community to give you an easy way to learn more and complete challenges as you develop for both the Windows Store and Windows Phone. Along the way, you’ll earn points that can then be redeemed for great prizes (for example, Nokia Lumia phones and more). DVLUP is currently open to developers in more than 20 countries.To participate, register for the DVLUP program and take advantage of the two new challenges available today:

Building Windows Store apps with HTML5/JavaScript announcements

A new version of the Windows ACK (and the SDK) is now available to download. This new version of the ACK will be enforced by the Store certification system in December, but you can start using it right now to improve the quality of your applications. Among other new tests and improvements, this new version will verify that the app icon shown in the Store is not the default one. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/desktop/hh852363

Designing websites has been a common practice for decades. With Windows 8 Consumer Preview, designers and developers can use the web technologies they are familiar with, including HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3), and JavaScript, to build Metro style apps for Windows. Here we explore how to expose the capabilities of a website to make it a great Metro style app for Windows 8 and show ways to provide additional value, personalization, and richer experiences using features of the Windows 8 platform.

Our aim is to help designers and developers reimagine their websites as Metro style apps.